re: Are you thinking of leaving Louisiana for good?

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Why does it have to be a year?

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that's based on Faucci's comments

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New Orleans isn’t going to collapse within a year or two.

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Nola is hurting terribly right now. "collapse" is a subjective standard, but they're in for some major shite in 2021 if things aren't opened and tourists aren't coming in. all of those airBNBs bought on credit are another issue and potential bubble

i'm not shitting on Nola. it's not Nola's fault, but this bad luck is potentially crippling long-term

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Everywhere needs a rebound, not just NOLA or Louisiana.

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certain areas are going to be hit harder. ones with more stable economic drivers will recover much more quickly. Nola has chosen to become a tourism-based city. those luxury industries will recover a lot more slowly, even without the bubbles around them.

I still have a house there, thinking about selling everything

Louisiana’s issues aside, I think it’s good for people to live somewhere else other than their home town/state/region, even if only for a while.

It’s by no means required to be happy in life, I just think it can open you up to new experiences, cultures, etc.

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XOM may be dropping in it's days as a BR economic driver.

What takes XOM's place is beyond what I can see.

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XOM still employs a lot of people. Have they really changed their employment numbers?

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I’m a fairly new attorney. To move out of state requires taking another state’s bar. I’m nowhere near prepared to take a common law bar exam. I barely passed common law property.

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barriers to entry is a better way to describe it then

We've been thinking of leaving in 2021. When we look at other places like Florida, Charleston, Nashville all of them have pros and cons.

What doesn't make sense about BR is that you put up with sooooo much of the bad, but there is very little good. Weak economy, bad schools, bad politics, crappy weather, bad roads, high insurance, etc. Florida has crazy weather and is expensive in many parts (and also, New Yorkers) but IMO the positives outweigh all of those negatives.

Charleston is insane expensive and floods, but you have stronger economy, better quality of life.

Nashville has awful traffic but no floods.

What are the positives to BR? And don't say "food" or "LSU Football"

with all of the protests, rioting, bullshite, radical democratic governors locking down states....

i know one damn thing. that shite aint happening on my little piece of land in BFE La.

does La have its backward arse bullshite comparative to other states. of course.

but i'll take its backward arse bullshite over anywhere else this country has to offer.

My family is here. I have a close circle of friends here. I have a home close enough to my work that I can go home during my lunch break. I’m not married and I can’t have kids, so I don’t have to care about the public school situation. My neighborhood is pretty decent from a crime standpoint, and I feel safe walking my dog at night and early in the mornings, and my neighborhood has some nice sidewalks. To move anywhere but Denver would require me to give up my support system (i have almost as many friends there now).

So, to be willing give up my support system, I’d have to be getting some pretty big upgrades in return like:
1. Way More money (Not difficult because I’m not making that much now, but also don’t have to work too hard for it)
2. Way better weather (would Likely require leaving the gulf South and going West)
3. Way better outdoor activities (I hate the lack of good hiking and camping options around here and would love a setting with mountains And/or beaches)

So, with these criteria, it pretty much rules out the main cities that tend to offer jobs to coonasses like myself (Houston, Dallas, Birmingham, Atlanta, and Memphis).

That basically leaves me to choose to keep living in BR with my steady job and reasonably comfortable life or spend a lot of time and money to attempt a bar exam somewhere with nicer weather in the hopes I might be able to eventually get a job offer there.

3.5 more years and I’ll at least have reciprocity in Texas so I can move there without taking their bar if I’m patient.

Home will always be home and there will always been things you miss but I unknowingly made the decision about 7 years ago. Always thought I would go back but I always tip the scale towards living somewhere else.

It's funny to read the exchange between SFP and CollegeFBRules because I see where both are coming from, and I go back and forth almost daily on this topic.

One day, I'll be sitting in traffic somewhere in BR with a median of overgrown 2-ft tall weeds to my left, a bunch of litter to my right, and a pothole in front of me... and I'll just think "that's it, I'm done"

A few days will go by and I'll see wildfires out west or antifa burning a building up north or some dude like me getting knocked out for no reason on a subway in NYC or Chicago, and I'll just think "Louisiana ain't so bad"

So, I see both sides. There are pockets of south BR/Ascension/Mandeville/Laffy where you and your family can avoid the worst aspects of LA as a whole. The question is, will that be possible for the next few decades?